Hitching-post



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R. C. BLOOMFIELD.

HITGHING POST.

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vNrrnn STATES PATENT Ormea.

RUSSELL C. BLOOMFIELD, OF BARNES, KANSAS.

HlTCHlNG-POST.

SPECIFICATION forming' part of Letters Patent No. 458,938, dated September 1, 1891.

Application filed April 23, 1891. Serial No. 390,144. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, RUSSELL C. BLOOM- FIELD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Barnes, in the county of lVashington and State ot Kansas, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hitching-Posts, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in hitchin g devices.

The object of the present invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive hitching device adapted to be placed in a stable or stall thereof or similar place to secure cattle and capable of paying out the hitching-rope as is necessary and taking up slack, whereby all severe strain upon the halter of an animal is prevented.

The invention consists of the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claim hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view 0f a bitching device embodying the invention. Fig. 2 isa vertical longitudinal sectional View. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view. Fig. 4 is a plan, the top of the casing heilig removed.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, l designates a casing adapted to be secured to the side of a stable, barn, or the like, more especially at the head of a stall, and consisting ot' sides 2, a back 3, and a curved front 4, which also forms the bottom of the casing, and the latter is provided with a top 5. The hitching device is located at the head of a stall, but outside of the same, and the back of the casing is provided with perforated ears.

A spindle 6 is journaled in the sides 2 of the casing and has mounted upon it a pulley 7, provided at one side with a sheave S. On the ciroumfereneeof the pulley is wound a hitching-rope 9, and the pulley is grooved to receive the same, and is adapted to be rotated as the hitching-rope is pulled upon and drawn out of the casing by an animal. The sheave is provided at its outer end with a ange 8, and is adapted to have wound upon it a return rope l0, which may have one end secured and has its other end connected with the lower end of aspiral spring ll, which is compressed as the return rope is wound around the sheave. The lower end of the spiral spring ll receives a plug l2, which is provided with an opening, and to which the return rope is secured by knotting. The spiral spring is arranged in a tubular post 13, which has its upper end secured in a socket Il, and the latter forms a bearing-surfaee for the upper end of the spiral spring and is secured to the bottom of the casing near the back thereof. The top of the casing is provided with a central opening, through which the bitching-rope is drawn, and when the bitching-rope is drawn out of the casing the pulley' and sheave are rotated and the return rope is wound upon the latter and the spiral spring is compressed and is adapted to return the hitehing-rope and take up any slack. The halter rope or strap is attached to the ring ot the bitchingrope and is of the ordinary length. The spring is suliiciently strong to prevent the bitching-rope being pulled out more than a few inches by the ordinary movements ot' a horses head; but when a horse is lying down and needs more rope in moving about or getting up the hitching-rope will be drawn out, and it is impossible fora horse to exert severe strain on the halter rope or strap.

It will be seen that the hitehing device is simple and inexpensive in construction and adapted to readily yield to the movements of an animal, and there is no liability of irritating the latter or inconveniencing it in any way. It is impossible for a horse to draw back and throw its entire weight upon the halter-rope when it rises, and it has to depend altogether upon itself in rising, as the hitching device will allow extra rope to escape until the animal is up and then will take up slack.

In a hitching-post, the combination of the casing provided with a socket ll, the tubular post having its upper end fitted in the socket, the spiral spring arranged in the tubular post, the spindle journaled in the sides of the easing, the pulley mounted on the spindle to the sides of the pulley adjacent the sheave 5o I and provided at one side with a sheave, the my own I have hereto axedomy signature in bitching-rope wound on the pulley, and the presence of two witnesses. return rope having one end connected to the T f f i lower end of the spring and its other end at- RUSSELL b BLOOM FIELD 5 taehed'to the pulley and adapted to be Wound VVitnessesi on thesheave, substantially as described. W. C. HAVELY,

In testimony that I Claim the foregoing as J. C. BCAR'IHUR, 

